Savagized vs Savagize - What's the difference?
savagized | savagize |
(savagize)
To make savage; to reduce to a state of savagery.
* 1817 , The Analectic Magazine (volume 9, page 153)
* (Hubert Howe Bancroft)
* 2004 , John McWilliams, New England's Crises and Cultural Memory (page 108)
To make savage; to reduce to a state of savagery.
* 1817 , The Analectic Magazine (volume 9, page 153)
* (Hubert Howe Bancroft)
* 2004 , John McWilliams, New England's Crises and Cultural Memory (page 108)
As verbs the difference between savagized and savagize
is that savagized is past tense of savagize while savagize is {{cx|transitive|lang=en}} To make savage; to reduce to a state of savagery.savagized
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(head)savagize
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(savagiz)- But there are many tribes of Indians and islanders more expert with their canoes — as for example the Alaskans and the Kanakas — than any European, however savagized by forest life.
- This conceptual change allowed the Indian as tractable heathen to be rather rapidly replaced by the Indian as uncivilizable savage. When, therefore, nineteenth-century white historical writers wished to elegize or savagize the Indian, it was comparatively easy for them and their audience to assume that Mohicans, Pequots, and even Wampanoags no longer existed.
savagize
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(savagiz)- But there are many tribes of Indians and islanders more expert with their canoes — as for example the Alaskans and the Kanakas — than any European, however savagized by forest life.
- This conceptual change allowed the Indian as tractable heathen to be rather rapidly replaced by the Indian as uncivilizable savage. When, therefore, nineteenth-century white historical writers wished to elegize or savagize the Indian, it was comparatively easy for them and their audience to assume that Mohicans, Pequots, and even Wampanoags no longer existed.